They say lack of sleep can make you crazy. Fargo’s DeAnn Miller-Boschert, 45, just couldn’t take it anymore, lying in bed staring at the ceiling while her husband imitated a Tasmanian devil running a rusty chainsaw. The snoring had to stop.
A healthy cold dowsing of water to the snoring face had little effect other than to add gurgling noises to the fanfare of nostril trumpeting.
Incensed by her husband’s outrageous dormant behavior early on this Thursday morning, DeAnn grabbed an ink pen and thrust it twice into the flesh of her husband’s arm. He woke up for a moment, a bit confused but largely unaffected, and drifted back into his fury-inducing slumber with a fresh batch of wheeze wind.
Let’s just say that the series of events that follows is, at best, a blur. Around 4 AM, DeAnn swung a 3-pound dumbbell, striking him somewhere undisclosed, a last-straw move that did finally drive the unsuspecting man from deep sleep and into deep trouble as he stumbled out of bed, out the door and to a nearby convenience store to call the police.
DeAnn was taken into custody and booked into Cass County Jail, allowing the opportunity to nap while she awaits arraignment on charges of misdemeanor simple assault.
Police Sgt. Jeff Skuza said this wasn’t the first time DeAnn had lost her mind.
“He did have some scratches on his shoulders and arms that he said were from previous attacks,” Skuza said.
The battered husband returned home after his wife’s arrest.
“I assume he went back to sleep,” Skuza said.
